{"id":28702,"date":"2012-06-20T12:16:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T17:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=28702"},"modified":"2012-06-20T12:16:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T17:16:09","slug":"high-on-fire-back-out-of-heavy-mtl-and-heavy-t-o-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=28702","title":{"rendered":"HIGH ON FIRE &#8211; Back Out Of \u201cHeavy MTL\u201d And \u201cHeavy T.O.\u201d Festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i25.photobucket.com\/albums\/c84\/rocketfromvenice\/2931_photo.jpg\" alt=\"TMD\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i66.photobucket.com\/albums\/h259\/rsid999\/tmdcom.jpg\" alt=\"TMD\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nHIGH ON FIRE have had a change of heart and have now also scrapped their scheduled appearances at the \u201cHeavy MTL\u201d and \u201cHeavy T.O.\u201d festivals this summer as well. The group also recently pulled out of this summers \u201cRockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival\u201d in order for frontman\/guitarist Matt Pike to enter treatment for alcohol rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p>The organizers of the aforementioned \u201cHeavy\u201d festivals issued the following statement on the bands decision:<\/p>\n<p>    \u201cHIGH ON FIRE will also be forced to miss Heavy MTL and Heavy T.O as front man and guitarist Matt Pike enters treatment for alcohol rehabilitation. The award winning power trio (also featuring drummer Des Kensel and bassist Jeff Matz) will put its scheduled touring plans on hold indefinitely as Pike takes the necessary steps towards regaining his health. We are sorry for the inconvenience.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSource: The PRP<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.highonfire.net\/\">http:\/\/www.highonfire.net\/<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIGH ON FIRE have had a change of heart and have now also scrapped their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}